webshaped
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•Created by webshaped on 8/12/2024 in #general-help
A question about Cloudflare Stream
Hello, community, this is my first post here and I have a question about Cloudflare Stream, more precisely preloading options I can or can't control.
I have a video news site using Sanity CMS + MUX integration and 11ty SSG website on Cloudflare Pages. I like MUX but I'm not sure I could keep up with their billing policies, and this is where my headaches are coming from - MUX preloads the whole video while playing, which means that if I look first 30 seconds of a 5-minute long video and go away from that webpage, I will be charged for the whole video since 30 seconds is about enough for 5-minute long video to completely preloads.
That completely messes up my monetization with Pre-roll, Mid-Roll, and Post-Roll Video Ads since Mid-Roll and Post-Roll Ads are not even triggered.
Finally my question - can I control how Cloudflare Stream preloads videos? On a majority of streaming services, the video is preloaded only about 20-30 seconds in advance. I never saw that the whole movie gets preloaded while I'm watching it. Is that possible to get with Cloudflare Stream? If yes I'm immediately migrating from MUX.
Cheers.
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